This was the best video on pruning blueberries I've come across yet. Now I have a good idea of how to proceed with my own blueberry bushes. Thanks for posting this Danny!!
I have never heard of a blueberry tree until now. I've learned more about blueberries in these 20 minutes than I have my whole life. You take such good care of all you have. ❤ Thank you for sharing your extensive knowledge and experience.
This is for real the best blueberry growing video I've seen. I said that about the last one I saw, but this one is even better. God bless you from Tennessee!
Thank you for doing this video. I have a blueberry patch and have not prune the patch. We have 20 plus bushes. I am grateful to you. I will be able to prune the patch with no fear. God Bless
Hi 👋- Mr. Danny we purchased 2 peach 🍑 trees 2 blackberry & 2 blueberry bushes from Fast growing trees. .Com But now I know from yall to buy elsewhere but mine are OK, we planted the peach trees 2 weeks ago & waiting until October to plant the blueberry & blackberry bushes due to the heat , I've got them in my screen room for now... I truly love learning so much from you & Wanda. Josette Tharp Montgomery County, Texas 🌻
Grateful for this video. It reminds me that it,s time to do my bushes, and being the amateur that I am, it is great to get this refresher on proper methods. Thanks and Merry Christmas guys.
Good video, as always, Danny! I'm about to get to pruning myself. We grow Brightwell, Climax and Premier here in north central Alabama. Thanks for all of your great content!
Beautiful and healthy blueberry bushes. I think you will see a good production next year. Merry Christmas, Danny and Wanda. You have been a blessing to so many.. 🎄
(1st) Morning Danny ...Great Info Today....I Have 12 Of The High Bush Rabbit Eye's & 3 Of The Premires's...Have Already Done The Pruning & Circled Each Tree With Rabbit Manure, Which Love It Very Much Here In Tennessee...Great Pruners...LOL
Those look like some great cutters! Thanks for teaching us! I love that you take the time to explain why you prune the way you do and what's supposed to happen! Hope y'all have a Merry Christmas!
I am putting in my first blueberry plants this fall. 3 Blue Crop, 2 Chandler and 2 Earliblue bushes. I am in zone 6b and have about 2-4 weeks till our first frost. Your video was perfect for my first pruning in Jan/Feb. Could you tell me how close to last frost do you prune? Thank you again for the step by step guide with demonstration video.
Merry Christmas ya'll! Thanks for this video. We are so appreciative of it. We did plant 12 Premiere bushes and a few Sunshine Blue. Looking forward to using your knowledge on our bushes.
I took some cuttings from Rabbiteyes and they successfully took but after a year in a pot I have one central 'trunk' as it were with quite a few canes branching up from the one central point. There are no other canes coming up from the crown. Should I remove all but three or so of the current canes and cut those back by half? Will this force the bush to push new canes from the roots under the soil and thus widen the crown? The plants are still in felt pots approx 12" round by 12" deep. I’m going to put them in 21 Gal pots this winter. The new pots are 22 in dia by 17 in deep
I planted blueberry bushes in ground in 2019 and i believe that with a mixture of all the rain we had that flooded our yard and the oak trees we planted them next to, they just weren't happy. Just this week i dug them up and put them in pots to hopefully try and save them. This will be the 2nd year of owning them. Should i wait til next year to prune?
i like to prune early, soon after all the fruit is gone. that way you get the new growth before winter and it's the new growth that produces the fruit! im 30 miles north of tallahassee fl
Thanks a lot for this video. So even if we have healthy new growth on branches coming from the lower part of the canes, you’d still suggest pruning them?
I'm glad I watched this one. I thought the old branches needed taking off. I would have taken off the older stalks and left the new sprouts. I have 3 bushes I leave for the cardinals. The cuttings take in acid soil, if you can keep the chickens out, And never water with the hose, the water comes out of the lime rock aquafer.
Hi Danny. Just watched your video I have three bushes that I have never pruned and sadly have no idea the variety. Two of the three have produced a good bit of fruit but they have grown tall and legging. I trimmed the internal branches as you said. However I have some limbs that are 10 feet tall. I have all the bushes inside a netting to prevent the birds from eating them all. But should I harshly cut the really long limbs? I know they need pruned. Just don’t want to impact my fruit as last year was a good year. I live in GA (ATL area). Thanks much.
I would love to grow blueberries here ( below lake Pontchatrain) but the soil is just to alkaline . I have to add acidifiers every year just to get a ph of 6.5. Great for growing sugar cane thou.
I live in Southwest LA and I have thick clay soil, so I planted all of my blueberry plants in 20 gallon containers. I mixed peat moss and pine chips and a little compost and they love it. I add about 1/4 cup fertilizer in early spring with an additional feeding later. So easy to control the pH in soil. My 3 year old plants are huge and thriving.
ThymeToSow thanks for sharing. I may need to try that method. I can’t find anyone that’s had any luck with blueberries around here. We’re really close to the Mississippi River so we are blessed with very fertile soil. It’s just real alkaline . It’s not unusual for me to get a ph of 8 sometimes.
@@billybradyjr6008 I made a mistake. I use ammonium sulfate by Hi Yield to fertilize. I grow Premier, Climax, Brightwell and Pink Lemonade and they all do well in our area. Good luck and Merry Christmas!
Hey Mr. Danny, My blueberry trees are 2 yrs old, should I prune any this year or wait till next year? I have one premiere and two powder blue (name on the tag)?
I trim our blueberry bushes much the same for the airflow. Any reason behind 6 stalks? I seem to trim my bottoms limbs further up than yours for no particular reason other than aesthetics for me. What is your average from ground to bottom limbs? Any reason for that distance that is better for the bush? I also keep mine about 5.5' to 6' tall as well. Thanks for the video.
nice video. Could you cover in more detail your fertilizing timing schedule and types and amounts on your three year old plants? Also, you mentioned " No Lime". Could you offer more details on the why not? Thanks for sharing info on pruning and your experience on how to handle and Merry Christmas to you folks.
Lime makes the soil more basic, while blueberries prefer acidic soil. Most garden vegetables prefer neutral or slightly basic soil, but blueberries are the exception.
They are beautiful Secateurs, I like the carrying case, it looks sturdy enough to take the sort of battering that goes on in the garden when you're carrying tools. I have an awful habit of putting mine down and forgetting about them, all I can say is Thank the Lord for WD40. I'd follow your advice over book-learnin' any day of the working week and twice on Sundays Danny. Lol
I have some very small blueberries I planted in the later spring. 2 of them were in flower when I purchased them and they put off some smaller fruit. Should I remove the branches that already fruited entirely?
I' new to your channel..... I'm just starting with my food forest !.... This property came with 6 blueberry bushes and I don't know the variety ! They all bloom separately. So when one is ending, others are ripening ! I'm zone 7a....What zone are you in ????
I'm no expert on this by any means! I'm just about 2yrs in on my BB's, this yr will be 3rd season. I know there are many and I mean many varieties of BB's for the southern regions and the northern regions. From 1' to 8' and now for hanging pots as of this year or last year! . I was under the impression that BB's are bushes not tree's. Or are they of the 8 foot varieties? Might as well be a tree at that point! LOL! The real question- why prune the young shoots when in roughly 2/3 yrs your now 4 yr old canes are going to drop in production? Wouldn't you want to start new canes now and not prune all of them. I'm speaking of the outer canes not the inside canes. Thinning out the inside= air flow, that I get. Im just trying to understand your method, so I can determine whether or not to apply it to my BB's. I will agree with you feeding method! I did a mid summer feed and still got die back here in lower NY(zone 7 or 7a pending what chart you look at.). Early summer feed will be the last feed this yr for my guys and girls.
Fyi, water sprouts are aggressive energy consuming growths that detract fruiting ability, not the new canes you were removing. Blueberries only fruit on 1 yr growth. Pruning is essential to maintain fruiting. It's best to allow canes to mature and grow fruit for 5-6 years and allow new ones to mature and replace the oldest ones completely. Tldr: not intended to correct, but your method will deminish the fruit yields of your plants in time. Don't take my word for it. Ask or read local extension office for info.
No people stop pruning in winter or around winter....always prune blueberries after you harvest the berries in summer.... than next harvest it will produce more and bigger berries
This was the best video on pruning blueberries I've come across yet. Now I have a good idea of how to proceed with my own blueberry bushes. Thanks for posting this Danny!!
Acquired 5 blueberry plants last year so was really great when this video popped up. Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Finally somene who don't talk funny! Best pruning vid I have come across.
I am at 50 " trees" now. Made every mistake possible.
Easy Texas proud
I have never heard of a blueberry tree until now. I've learned more about blueberries in these 20 minutes than I have my whole life. You take such good care of all you have. ❤ Thank you for sharing your extensive knowledge and experience.
This is for real the best blueberry growing video I've seen. I said that about the last one I saw, but this one is even better. God bless you from Tennessee!
Thank you for doing this video. I have a blueberry patch and have not prune the patch. We have 20 plus bushes. I am grateful to you. I will be able to prune the patch with no fear. God Bless
Pruning is one of the gardening tasks I'm pretty good at, and you did it right! Thanks for the great very informative video!
Thanks Danny. That's pretty much the way I was thinking of pruning mine. Now I know for sure. Much Love
Hi 👋- Mr. Danny we purchased 2 peach 🍑 trees 2 blackberry & 2 blueberry bushes from
Fast growing trees. .Com
But now I know from yall to buy elsewhere but mine are OK, we planted the peach trees 2 weeks ago & waiting until October to plant the blueberry & blackberry bushes due to the heat , I've got them in my screen room for now... I truly love learning so much from you & Wanda.
Josette Tharp Montgomery County, Texas 🌻
Grateful for this video. It reminds me that it,s time to do my bushes, and being the amateur that I am, it is great to get this refresher on proper methods. Thanks and Merry Christmas guys.
Good video, as always, Danny! I'm about to get to pruning myself. We grow Brightwell, Climax and Premier here in north central Alabama. Thanks for all of your great content!
I love watching you prune your trees I always second quess myself!
Merry CHRISTMAS Danny and Wanda and the family as well.May GOD Bless you and keep you safe in the New year!!
Beautiful and healthy blueberry bushes. I think you will see a good production next year. Merry Christmas, Danny and Wanda. You have been a blessing to so many.. 🎄
(1st) Morning Danny ...Great Info Today....I Have 12 Of The High Bush Rabbit Eye's & 3 Of The Premires's...Have Already Done The Pruning & Circled Each Tree With Rabbit Manure, Which Love It Very Much Here In Tennessee...Great Pruners...LOL
Those look like some great cutters! Thanks for teaching us! I love that you take the time to explain why you prune the way you do and what's supposed to happen! Hope y'all have a Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!!
Thanks Danny for showing us how to prune blueberry bushes. Great video.
Good morning Deep South. Merry Christmas. Thanks for sharing your homestead.with us.
You place is so beautiful.💖🎆
I am putting in my first blueberry plants this fall. 3 Blue Crop, 2 Chandler and 2 Earliblue bushes. I am in zone 6b and have about 2-4 weeks till our first frost. Your video was perfect for my first pruning in Jan/Feb. Could you tell me how close to last frost do you prune? Thank you again for the step by step guide with demonstration video.
Fascinating information! I don’t have any, but I enjoy learning about everything!
Merry Christmas ya'll! Thanks for this video. We are so appreciative of it. We did plant 12 Premiere bushes and a few Sunshine Blue. Looking forward to using your knowledge on our bushes.
Thanks 🙏. That is exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks for the pruning tips!😀
Merry Christmas!🎄🙏
I took some cuttings from Rabbiteyes and they successfully took but after a year in a pot I have one central 'trunk' as it were with quite a few canes branching up from the one central point. There are no other canes coming up from the crown. Should I remove all but three or so of the current canes and cut those back by half? Will this force the bush to push new canes from the roots under the soil and thus widen the crown? The plants are still in felt pots approx 12" round by 12" deep. I’m going to put them in 21 Gal pots this winter. The new pots are 22 in dia by 17 in deep
Thank you for this video! I am needing to prune my blueberries
I planted blueberry bushes in ground in 2019 and i believe that with a mixture of all the rain we had that flooded our yard and the oak trees we planted them next to, they just weren't happy. Just this week i dug them up and put them in pots to hopefully try and save them. This will be the 2nd year of owning them. Should i wait til next year to prune?
i like to prune early, soon after all the fruit is gone. that way you get the new growth before winter and it's the new growth that produces the fruit! im 30 miles north of tallahassee fl
I usually do that but the weather has been so crazy this year I heald off till now.
Thanks a lot for this video. So even if we have healthy new growth on branches coming from the lower part of the canes, you’d still suggest pruning them?
Always enjoy the videos thanks for sharing
I'm glad I watched this one. I thought the old branches needed taking off. I would have taken off the older stalks and left the new sprouts. I have 3 bushes I leave for the cardinals. The cuttings take in acid soil, if you can keep the chickens out, And never water with the hose, the water comes out of the lime rock aquafer.
I have always removed the older ones too, as it pushes up new more productive canes with tons of berries
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for this video. Im growing Blueberries in Containers, Will they still require pruning? 2022 Will be their 2nd year.
I’m in Alabama, Zone 8B and wondered when is best to prune my blueberry bushes?
Hi Danny. Just watched your video I have three bushes that I have never pruned and sadly have no idea the variety. Two of the three have produced a good bit of fruit but they have grown tall and legging. I trimmed the internal branches as you said. However I have some limbs that are 10 feet tall. I have all the bushes inside a netting to prevent the birds from eating them all. But should I harshly cut the really long limbs? I know they need pruned. Just don’t want to impact my fruit as last year was a good year. I live in GA (ATL area). Thanks much.
Any suggestions for trimming 20 year old blueberry trees....I might have over done it.
Very interesting 🤔
Dayne here, Wish you and your Family a Merry Christmas & a very Wonderful New Year :-) May thing in 2019 be a good year for you all. :-)
I would love to grow blueberries here ( below lake Pontchatrain) but the soil is just to alkaline . I have to add acidifiers every year just to get a ph of 6.5. Great for growing sugar cane thou.
I live in Southwest LA and I have thick clay soil, so I planted all of my blueberry plants in 20 gallon containers. I mixed peat moss and pine chips and a little compost and they love it. I add about 1/4 cup fertilizer in early spring with an additional feeding later. So easy to control the pH in soil. My 3 year old plants are huge and thriving.
ThymeToSow thanks for sharing. I may need to try that method. I can’t find anyone that’s had any luck with blueberries around here. We’re really close to the Mississippi River so we are blessed with very fertile soil. It’s just real alkaline . It’s not unusual for me to get a ph of 8 sometimes.
@@billybradyjr6008 I made a mistake. I use ammonium sulfate by Hi Yield to fertilize. I grow Premier, Climax, Brightwell and Pink Lemonade and they all do well in our area. Good luck and Merry Christmas!
Thank you!
Nice job!
Danny, do you cover your bushes to keep the birds from eating your berries?
Thank you
Nice pruner's
Hey Mr. Danny, My blueberry trees are 2 yrs old, should I prune any this year or wait till next year? I have one premiere and two powder blue (name on the tag)?
No wait till next year.
Are you suppose to prune the first year?
Good morning!
Please forgive my ignorance but what is meant by "water sprout"?
It is a sprout that grows very fast and tall with no lateral branches.
@@DeepSouthHomestead Thank you sir
I trim our blueberry bushes much the same for the airflow. Any reason behind 6 stalks? I seem to trim my bottoms limbs further up than yours for no particular reason other than aesthetics for me. What is your average from ground to bottom limbs? Any reason for that distance that is better for the bush? I also keep mine about 5.5' to 6' tall as well. Thanks for the video.
Anything more than 6 stalks is just to thick for good growth in my opinion. Next year I will trim the bottom limbs higher. Mostly for mowing reasons.
@@DeepSouthHomestead ok tyvm
You said these are blueberry Trees. Should I trim my blueberry bushes the same way?
Yes
nice video. Could you cover in more detail your fertilizing timing schedule and types and amounts on your three year old plants? Also, you mentioned " No Lime". Could you offer more details on the why not? Thanks for sharing info on pruning and your experience on how to handle and Merry Christmas to you folks.
Lime makes the soil more basic, while blueberries prefer acidic soil. Most garden vegetables prefer neutral or slightly basic soil, but blueberries are the exception.
Could you dig up any sprouts and plant them? We were told to plant in the winter.
Yes you could and yes plant in the winter.
Deep South Homestead thanks !
They are beautiful Secateurs, I like the carrying case, it looks sturdy enough to take the sort of battering that goes on in the garden when you're carrying tools. I have an awful habit of putting mine down and forgetting about them, all I can say is Thank the Lord for WD40. I'd follow your advice over book-learnin' any day of the working week and twice on Sundays Danny. Lol
I have some very small blueberries I planted in the later spring. 2 of them were in flower when I purchased them and they put off some smaller fruit. Should I remove the branches that already fruited entirely?
No just create the shape you desire and the height you want.
Thank you. I noticed today that they are already budding a bit. They just lost most of their leaves! California...
If you just clip the top of a water sprout, won't it then produce some branches?
Yes it will.
What kind of fertilizer do you use?
Amonium sulfate very cautious so I don't burn the plants.
Danny, would those watersprouts have even made fruit if left on the bush? Just curious.
Yes they would eventually.
I' new to your channel..... I'm just starting with my food forest !.... This property came with 6 blueberry bushes and I don't know the variety ! They all bloom separately. So when one is ending, others are ripening ! I'm zone 7a....What zone are you in ????
Zone 8.
@@DeepSouthHomestead >>> ok, just a little warmer than here ! Thanks !
Nice video...just wondering if you knew what your soil PH is ?
At the moment mine is a 5.5 PH
You keep talking about water sprouts, how do I know that's what they are if I'm pruning my blueberry bushes?
The water sprout will be long and straight no branches.
What ratio of dilution do you use for the bleach water to dip your shears into?
I use one cup of bleach to a gallon of water.
Do you ever try to root your clippings?
I have in the past.
I like mine really tall we eat and give away the fruit we can reach and let the birds eat the top fruit
What is a water sprout
Can you take those cuttings and grow new blueberry plants?
Yes you can.
Why is airflow important?
What about coffee grounds around the trees
They are ok.
I'm no expert on this by any means! I'm just about 2yrs in on my BB's, this yr will be 3rd season. I know there are many and I mean many varieties of BB's for the southern regions and the northern regions. From 1' to 8' and now for hanging pots as of this year or last year! . I was under the impression that BB's are bushes not tree's. Or are they of the 8 foot varieties? Might as well be a tree at that point! LOL! The real question- why prune the young shoots when in roughly 2/3 yrs your now 4 yr old canes are going to drop in production? Wouldn't you want to start new canes now and not prune all of them. I'm speaking of the outer canes not the inside canes. Thinning out the inside= air flow, that I get. Im just trying to understand your method, so I can determine whether or not to apply it to my BB's. I will agree with you feeding method! I did a mid summer feed and still got die back here in lower NY(zone 7 or 7a pending what chart you look at.). Early summer feed will be the last feed this yr for my guys and girls.
I only leave around 6 shoots any more the tree gets to thick and its hard to care for the tree. And a lot harder to pick.
@@DeepSouthHomestead makes sense. Thanks.
I would for sure loss those trimmers in the snow this time of the year
Fyi, water sprouts are aggressive energy consuming growths that detract fruiting ability, not the new canes you were removing.
Blueberries only fruit on 1 yr growth. Pruning is essential to maintain fruiting. It's best to allow canes to mature and grow fruit for 5-6 years and allow new ones to mature and replace the oldest ones completely.
Tldr: not intended to correct, but your method will deminish the fruit yields of your plants in time.
Don't take my word for it. Ask or read local extension office for info.
No people stop pruning in winter or around winter....always prune blueberries after you harvest the berries in summer.... than next harvest it will produce more and bigger berries
Weather is gonna get more insane.. I’m aorry
calling it a tree is so activating to me.
it’s a bush. and they are canes.